DJ Earworm presents United States of Pop 2016: Into Pieces [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8CpaE5T34&w=560&h=315] You Came for 2016 by Adamusic [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4Sjy7JngE&w=560&h=315] T10MO — Hits of 2016 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNidh_JSkYk&w=560&h=315]
Every now and then Dave Kellett hits a grand slam (baseball or Denny’s – it’s all good) — today is one of those days.
Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, is dang good. Just missed this when it came out but glad I grabbed a copy of the collected series. The structure of it is really interesting – -I guess the structure of the story is a bit of a spoiler? but it’s been out since 2011 so I’m not sure it’s a big deal. Every chapter the main dies but then it’s a meditation on life and death and so this is not so much a gimmick as a way to provoke thinking about the chapter you’ve just read. What’s important in life? …
Update in 2018: I haven’t checked back on the site in quite awhile so I have no idea if it was only down for a couple of days or years but hooray, it’s up again and the archives seem to be working well. A little sad to realize ACT-I-VATE Comix is busted. The website – http://activatecomix.com/ – is still there but all of the images are broken. It’s too bad – the webcomics collective, started by Dean Haspiel, brought together an amazing collection of work from comics artists who were generally new to the web. I can’t find out anything …
East Coast, USA got a blanket of snow on Saturday and three days later we are still digging out.
This unlicensed, not authorized short film from Joe Sill is really, really good. Sill is a professional director so it’s not entirely surprising that the film looks so good but he also gets pretty naturalistic performances from all three main characters (Kara, her Dad and the X-Wing Pilot).
Stumbled on to this new comic (through Piperka.net) which is really well drawn. It’s a bit of a predictable coming-of-age superhero-ish plot but it does have lots of odd touches, including the protagonist barfing up a very big hammer (hence the title) to use in fighting the bad guys. It barely has an archive so it’s a quick read right now and it’s entirely possible that it will start taking crazier and crazier left turns in the plot. I would check it out.
The novel The Man in the High Castle is my favorite novel by Philip K. Dick. (Granted I haven’t read all of them yet so that could change.) I was interested when Amazon did a pilot for a teevee show based on the novel. Mostly I thought it was an interesting adaption. It did a lot of work to recreate the alternate universe. I was a little less excited about the change from a book to a film for the central plot device. (A macguffin or a metaguffin perhaps but important to the story). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I?rel=0&controls=0] I haven’t had a …
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